The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
US president welcomes Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh for official gala at the White House President Barack Obama welcomes Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh to the White House for the first state dinner of his administration tonight, a gala affair for hundreds in a huge tent on the White House lawn. State dinners are the marquee social event in Washington, and tonight's guest list and menu...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A champion of the fight against hunger, former Ghanaian President John Kufuor, has just visited a remote Kenyan village to see how school meals are helping to secure an education for children from even the poorest families.
Trade Africa (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
by Katrina Manson African states must integrate immediately or some will not survive, Mo Ibrahim, who funds the world's biggest prize in support of leadership on the continent, said late on Saturday. Ibrahim was speaking at the opening of a two-day event promoting good governance in Africa, which appears to have slipped following a spate of coups in the past two years. "Some of our countries,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Former president of Ghana, Mr. John Kufuor, has said that immunity clause in any constitution is militarist and protective of dictatorship and corruption. He said this at the Akintola Williams Annual Lecture held yesterday in Lagos.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The former President of Ghana, John Kufuor, has blamed the underdevelopment of the African region on the leadership crisis bedeviling the continent. Kufuor told journalists on Friday in Lagos that the sit tight attitude of some African leaders was “unfortunate”. He was, however, optimistic that the leadership difficulties the continent was facing would soon be a [...]
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra Friday for Lagos at the start of a two-week overseas trip that will take him Spain, Italy, Kenya and Ethiopia.(..)From Rome he will travel to Kenya and then Ethiopia on assignment for the United Nations World Food Programme as part of measures to assess and advice on the food crisis currently confronting those two countries.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday hosted former President John Agyekum Kufuor and two other former African leaders at the Castle, Osu.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Instead of leading the country to be united, out of power, Ghana's former presidents Jerry Rawlings and his successor John Kufuor have displayed open hatred with the former using any platform he mounts to hit out at his successor.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday described the news of the burning down of the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Accra on Wednesday night as "a great shock".
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
A prize of US$5 million for sub-Saharan African ex-leaders - the world's most valuable individual annual award, established in 2007 - who were democratically elected and have shown good governance is not being awarded this year . Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born billionaire telecoms magnate, gave no reason for why the prize committee decided not to award the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The hopes and aspirations of former President John Agyekum Kufuor to annex the much-coveted Mo Ibrahim award have been dashed. This follows an official announcement by the Foundation yesterday to the effect that it would not award the prize this year.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The decision to withhold Africa's biggest leadership prize in only its third year has prompted discussion of the failings of two heavyweights: South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo. The announcement that there would be no Mo Ibrahim laureate this year will, however, have surprised the less well known John Kufuor of Ghana more than his higher-profile counterparts.
AFRIKA NOW (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Sudanese magnate Mo Ibrahim will not be awarding any African ex-leader his $5m (£3m) annual prize for good governance. Mr Ibrahim gave no reason for the decision, saying he had always intended for there to be years when no prize would be awarded. Now in its third year, the prize is given to a democratically elected leader from sub-Saharan Africa who has served their term and then left office....
All Africa (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Accra, Oct 13, GNA - South Korea's Inje University has conferred an Honorary Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Political Science on former President John Agyekum Kufuor and it goes with full scholarships for two Ghanaians to study any of the sciences in the university.
SimoleonSense (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Talk about emerging markets….. Introduction (Via MIT) After centuries of insufferable oppression by colonial powers, bloody independence struggles, and corrupt home-grown regimes, “Africa today is quickly awakening, and determined to mainstream itself in the phenomenon of the globalization process,” says John Kufuor, who served as Ghana’s president for two terms starting in...
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